Handyman Jack Modified To Fix Collapsed Culverts
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Harold Walden, Hettick, Ill.: Walden is a rural township highway commissioner and one of the problems he frequently encounters is collapsed culverts due to cars and trucks cutting corners too short. To correct the problem, he modified a handyman jack with jaws to reshape the ends.
He had a local welder add 8-in. extensions to both the base and the lift pad on the jack. He just slips the extensions into the end of the culvert and cranks the jack with the normal jack handle. "It's kind of crude but it works," says Walden, who fixes about 60 culverts a year with the modified jack.
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Handyman Jack Modified To Fix Collapsed Culverts FARM SHOP Tools 24-1-38 Harold Walden, Hettick, Ill.: Walden is a rural township highway commissioner and one of the problems he frequently encounters is collapsed culverts due to cars and trucks cutting corners too short. To correct the problem, he modified a handyman jack with jaws to reshape the ends.
He had a local welder add 8-in. extensions to both the base and the lift pad on the jack. He just slips the extensions into the end of the culvert and cranks the jack with the normal jack handle. "It's kind of crude but it works," says Walden, who fixes about 60 culverts a year with the modified jack.
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